Nolan Kataoka
Software Engineer at Hightouch
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNolan Kataoka is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building web-first products and tooling, currently focused on agent-facing interfaces at Hightouch. He previously led growth-focused engineering at Grammarly, shipping LLM-powered demos and a high-traffic React + Contentful website that serves as the primary top-of-funnel. Nolan has strong front-end architecture chops—driving TypeScript migrations, pnpm monorepos, shared component libraries, and complex state-management patterns across teams. As a former CTO and cofounder of an academic hiring startup, he blends product intuition with hands-on engineering in Node.js/React/TypeScript stacks. His background in chemical engineering and creative writing gives him an unusual mix of systems thinking and communication skills that help translate ambiguity into practical experiments. He mentors mid-level engineers and consistently focuses on measurable impact—SEO-aware experimentation, developer experience improvements, and reproducible demo tooling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Chemical Engineering Creative Writing, Computer Science Chemical Engineering Creative Writing at University of Michigan
Github Skills (40)
loopback9
api8
cypress-plugin8
nodejs7
rest7
dependency-injection7
rest-api6
openapi6
regression6
csharp6
visual-regression-testing6
strongloop6
typescript6
swagger6
backend5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nmkataoka/adv-life
May 2020 - Oct 2021
The game Adventurer's Life.
Contributions:306 PRs, 422 pushes, 313 branches in 1 year 5 months
gameadventurerlife
nmkataoka/laravel_react_test
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Laravel app with a simple React frontend for API testing purposes
Contributions:20 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 months
apireactreact-frontendtestingphp
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